Netscape Enterprise Server Directory Indexing Vulnerability

BID:1063

Info

Netscape Enterprise Server Directory Indexing Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 1063
Class: Configuration Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: Yes
Published: Mar 17 2000 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 17 2000 12:00AM
Credit: Posted to Bugtraq on March 17, 2000 by Vanja Hrustic <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Netscape Enterprise Server 3.51
- Digital UNIX 4.0 D
- HP HP-UX 10.10
- IBM AIX 4.1.5
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
- SGI IRIX 6.2
- Sun Solaris 2.5.1
Netscape Enterprise Server 3.6
- Compaq Tru64 4.0 d
- Digital UNIX 4.0 B
- HP HP-UX 11.0
- IBM AIX 4.2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
- SGI IRIX 6.5
- SGI IRIX 6.2
- Sun Solaris 2.5.1
- Sun Solaris 8_sparc
- Sun Solaris 7.0
- Sun Solaris 2.6
Netscape Enterprise Server 3.0
- Compaq Tru64 4.0 d
- HP HP-UX 11.0
- IBM AIX 4.2.1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4
- SGI IRIX 6.5
- Sun Solaris 7.0
- Sun Solaris 2.6_sparc
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Netscape Enterprise Server Directory Indexing Vulnerability

Netscape Enterprise Server 3.x includes a poorly documented feature that will allow remote users to view directory listings by appending various instructional tags to the URL. Although it can be disabled, Netscape Enterprise Server is shipped with the "Directory Indexing" feature enabled by default.

Exploit / POC

Netscape Enterprise Server Directory Indexing Vulnerability

http://target/?wp-cs-dump

?wp-cs-dump can be substituted with the following strings in order to achieve the same results:

?wp-ver-info
?wp-html-rend
?wp-usr-prop
?wp-ver-diff
?wp-verify-link
?wp-start-ver
?wp-stop-ver
?wp-uncheckout

Gabriel Maggiotti <[email protected]> has provided the following exploit:

netscape-server.c

Solution / Fix

Netscape Enterprise Server Directory Indexing Vulnerability

Solution:
The Directory Indexing feature can be turned off via the Administration Interface. Selecting Content Management -> Document Preferences and changing Directory Indexing to "none" will disable this feature.

Also, manually editing the file obj.conf will do the same. Conduct a search for the following:

Service method="(GET|HEAD)" type="magnus-internal/directory"
fn="index-common"

and replace fn="index-common" with fn="send-error".

References

Netscape Enterprise Server Directory Indexing Vulnerability

References:
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